1657) Morus was still in his Amsterdam professorship, longing to be in France, but uncertain whether his call thither would hold.

How the case ended we shall see in time.

Meanwhile it is quite apparent that Milton was not only willing, but anxious, that _his_ influence should be imported into the affair, to turn the scale, if possible, against the man he detested.

As he had not heard of the call of Morus to Charenton till the receipt of Oldenburg's letter, his motives originally for despatching a bundle of his Anti-Morus pamphlets into France with Oldenburg can have been only general; but one gathers from his reply to Oldenburg that he thought the pamphlets might now be of use specifically in the business of the proposed translation.
Indeed, one can discern a tone of disappointment in Milton's letter with Oldenburg's report of what he had been able to do with the pamphlets hitherto.

He might have spared himself the expense, he says, and Oldenburg the trouble.